Hse Referral sheet template, revision no. 00002

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		RE-REFERRAL

HB64	RELATING TO INSURANCE. Requires the insurance commissioner to establish a working group to examine the potential impacts of requiring real property owners who use online marketplace and hospitality services to lease or rent residential real property as transient accommodations to complete, sign, and file with their property insurers an affidavit regarding fire safety.	CPC, FIN
HB402	RELATING TO INCREASING THE OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS' PRO RATA SHARE OF PUBLIC LAND TRUST FUNDS. Establishes $35,000,000 as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' pro rata share of the public land trust. Transfers $139,000,000 less certain funds to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs for underpayment of the public land trust funds for 7/1/2012 to 6/30/2019. Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide an annual accounting of receipts from lands described in section 5(f) of the Admissions Act. Establishes a committee to recommend the annual amount of the income and proceeds from the public land trust that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs shall receive annually. Appropriates funds.	WLH, FIN
HB449	RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY. Establishes a statewide sustainability division within the Office of Planning to ensure long-term planning, coordination, and implementation of Hawaii's sustainability goals and policies. Appropriates funds.	EEP/EDB, FIN
HB527	RELATING TO THE HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION. Appropriates funds to the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to establish a full-time catheterization laboratory, including the employment of staff, at the Hilo medical center in the Hawaii health systems corporation east Hawaii region.	HLT, FIN
HB712	RELATING TO ELECTIONS. Requires certain executive branch candidates to disclose their federal income tax returns in order for their names to appear on an election ballot. Prohibits electors for the offices of President and Vice President of the United States to vote for candidates who have not disclosed their federal income tax returns.	JUD
HB846	RELATING TO SISTER-STATE RELATIONSHIPS. Requires the Hawaii sister-state committee to evaluate, develop recommendations, and establish a sister-state relationship with the Department of Vosges, France.	TIA/EDB, FIN
HB857	RELATING TO TRAFFIC. Prohibits operating a bicycle or motor scooter within the area that includes the grounds of the State Capitol and Iolani Palace.	TRN, JUD
HB952	RELATING TO LAW ENFORCEMENT STANDARDS BOARD. Clarifies membership and certain powers and duties of the Law Enforcement Standards Board, establishes new and more realistic deadlines for the completion of board responsibilities, and provides appropriate funds and resources to enable the board to accomplish its mission.	JUD, FIN
HB1154	RELATING TO THE OWNER-BUILDER EXEMPTION. Requires owner-builders to provide proof of withholding taxes and workers' compensation insurance. Amends fines for failure to comply with statute.	IAC, LAB, FIN
HB1298	RELATING TO JUDGES. Changes the designation of judges of the intermediate appellate court, circuit courts, district courts, and family courts. Repeals the provision that allows the supreme court to summarily remove any district family judge from office and revoke the district family judge's commission whenever the supreme court deems such removal necessary for the public good or the volume of cases within the circuit is reduced to a level where the reduction of the number of district family judges within a circuit is deemed advisable.	JUD, FIN
HB1379	RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION. Beginning on 1/1/2020, requires that any person who is eligible to vote and applies for a new or renewed motor vehicle driver's license, provisional license, instruction permit, limited purpose driver's license, limited purpose provisional driver's license, limited purpose instruction permit, or identification card shall be automatically registered to vote if that person is not already registered to vote; provided that, upon receipt of notification from the respective county clerk, the applicant shall have 21 calendar days to opt out of automatic voter registration. Appropriates funds.	JUD, FIN
HB1403	RELATING TO HOUSING. Requires a county to approve, approve with modification, or disapprove an application for a permit necessary for a housing development project that uses moneys from the rental housing revolving fund. Provides for automatic permit approval if a county does not make a timely decision on an application. Exempts the foregoing projects from environmental impact statement requirements. Sunsets on 6/30/2026.	HSG, EEP, FIN
HB1409	RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS CORPORATIONS. Requires sustainable business corporations to file annual benefit reports with DCCA. Authorizes DCCA to terminate sustainable business corporation status for noncompliance. Requires the Business Registration Division to post searchable information on sustainable business corporations on its website.	EDB, CPC, FIN
HB1449	RELATING TO THE NURSING FACILITY SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM. Extends the nursing facility sustainability fee program to 2021. Allows the nursing facility sustainability fee to be used to enhance capitated rates for the purpose of paying quality incentives. Increases the nursing facility sustainability fee limit from four to 5.5 per cent of net patient service revenue. Increases the per resident daily maximum fee from $13.46 to $20 for each facility, and increases the per resident reduced daily maximum fee from $5.85 to $9 for facilities that meet certain exceptions. Appropriates funds.	HSH/HLT, FIN
HB1462	RELATING TO UNFUNDED LIABILITIES. Requires the State Auditor to study the feasibility of providing health benefits to state and county employees using a self-insured model. Makes an appropriation. Establishes the Rate Stabilization Reserve Fund within the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund to help subsidize the costs of providing health and other benefit plans for active employees and retirees and their beneficiaries. Caps employer contributions to the Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) trust fund, which are made to prefund the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the Employer Union trust fund, when the separate accounts for each public employer within the OPEB trust fund have a combined balance of at least $2,000,000,000. Provides for the use of a portion of transient accommodations tax revenues to supplement deficient county public employer contribution amounts.	LAB, CPC, FIN
HB1485	RELATING TO VOTER REGISTRATION. Beginning on 1/1/2020, provides that any public high school student who is at least sixteen years old but not yet eighteen years old, is otherwise eligible to vote, and submits a voter affidavit shall be automatically preregistered to vote if that person is not already preregistered to vote; provided that upon receipt of notification from the respective county clerk the applicant shall have until their eighteenth birthday to opt out of automatic voter registration. Appropriates funds.	JUD, FIN
HB1583	RELATING TO ELECTRIC GRID RESILIENCY. Requires the Department of Education to establish a pilot program in which various schools are provided with renewable energy systems that are capable of providing backup power in the event of a natural disaster or other similar emergency. Requires the Public Utilities Commission to open a proceeding to incentivize the implementation of these systems.	EEP, LHE, CPC